Improvement in brushes



- U1\TITED STATES PATENT OFFICE PHILIP H. RAIFORD, OF ST. MARYS, GEORGIA.

IMPROVEMENT INBRUSHES.

Specifiizatima forming part of Letters Patent 0. 176,682, dated April 25, 1876; applica.tion fi1ed October 13, 12575.

T0 all wlwm i t may concern:

Be ib known t hat I, PHILIP H. RAIFORD,

01 St. Marys, in the couny ot' Camden and State 0f Georgia have iuveuted certain new aud useful I1nprovements in Brushes and Brooms, 0f which the following-is a speeifica- .tiog; and I 110 hereby declare that in the szune is contained a fu ll, clear, am] exact; de-

' scription of my seid invention, reference beers, into which the flexible material constitut-. ing the brush proper is inserted and seeured,

as hereinafter described. In the drawixig annexed hereto I have shown the "said flexible mater'1al t0 consist 0f certain portions 0f the saw 0x scrub palmetto, which is found t0 be well adapted. for the purpose, a1- though other kiuds of materialmay be employed.

In the further desdription of my=invention which follows, due referenee must be had to the z wcompanyiug drawiug, forming a part of' this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side v iew of one of the series ot' notched holders, showing the. position of and manner of securing the palmet to leaves therein. Fig. 2 is a top view 0f zvcomplete brus h, and Fig. 3 is a side -view of the same.

Similar lette'rs ot' reference iudicate similm arts in all the figures.

A.A are the notchedholders, and B is a follower-board, adapted to close the notehes in the last of the series et hdlders used in the construction of the brush. 0 O are the pieces 0f the flexible material secured within the nctches in the holders.

- The frames or holders having been prepared, the inanner of constructing the brush -or broom is as follows: The seetions of the material to be used are compressed. edgewise and inserted in the n0tches in the holders, and secured 1;herein by means of the nails a, until a sufficient; number of the filled frames have been placed together to give the desired thickness of the.brush, when the followerboamdv B is then added and the whole fastened together by means of nails OI' screws.

My improved brush 01' broom is cheaply made, as the frames are 0f a common size and sha-pe, and the thiekness of the brush dependent only upon the number ot' the holders employed in its construction. The material ean be 011t 130 any desired length t0 suit the diflerent purposes f0r which brushes 0f this description are applicable.

Having thus described my invention, what: I elaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

T'ne combinatim1 of a series of uot'ehed holders, A A, a se ries of bunches 0r SGCOUS, O C, of flexible material, and a follower-board,

B, with aSeries of fastening-pins, a a, all arranged substantially as and .f0r the purpose speeified.

In testimon'y whereof I bave hereunto subscribed my name this 30th September, in the year of our Lord 1875.

PHILIP H. RAIFORD. 

